Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels

Greetings my lovely blog readers 😍

Hope you all had a lovely week filled with lots of important jobs and meetings and mostly with lots of love and care :)

Mine as well wasn't one of these as im currently having my very last week off from school so i might say i had a week full of sleep and lots of good reading.

I must truly admit that Kafka has been lastly my all time favourite.

Weirdo,surreal,absurd,strange all in one hebreian boy.

-Apparently this is a mixture of all his novels,short stories,sketches which might be all finished or some of them unfinished.These are all summarized in chronological order of their creations.
-If you have decided to enter into Kafka's masterpiece, it means you have passed a thing that is not connected anymore with your everyday life like your historical knowledges nor philosphian or psychological ones.
It simply means you have entered into his world same as entering into religion world or mitological myths.

-As long as i took the chance to read this book i as well turned off all of the lights of any artistical or romantic or spiritual room. I discovered some 'Kafk-ians' ( if i may put a name to him) personage images, some very risky and nonimaginery turns of the subject and as well some very unpredictable stories of human logic.

-As a matter of fact Kafka finished his law studies and as well worked as an employer in an insurance company.This kind of job he did in his everyday life never stopped him to spend his lonely nights writing. He used the cold,unhearted,administrative-scientific way of writing his novels in order to wear his dreams,fantazies and nightmares!
-The 3 most known and sold worldwide  were the 3 books he wrote:

(I'll read them as soon as i finish his short novels xp) PARDON!

-In these book that im holding is filled with his finished and unfinished novels which i may as well say that lots of his works in here are unfinished or lost.

It is believed that Kafka most of his life suffered from depression,anxiety and as well insomnia followed by his vacuum periods or literature crisis.He says:

"All of my words that im writing  are meaningless,i can hear how the consonants are all creaking just like a tin can while between them the vowels are singing like some negro exhibitons.

Across my words i can barely see my doubts.

But,wait,i cant even see the word, i just invent it!

-Then talking about his romantic life he as well experienced a very troubled one.Twice he was engaged to marry,Felice Bauer,before they two went their separate ways years later.

Then he got friends with the journalism girl Milena Jesenkaja which translated a small amount of his czech novels.

Later on,Kafka fell in love with Dora Diamant,who shared his jewish roots and a preference for socialism.They lived together in Berlin,although she was like 19 years younger than him.She took care of him till his last day of life.

-To be mentioned as well are all his LOVE letters he did sent to his girls.There are slightly 500 hundred letters or more to each girl.One  of his love letters to Felice ill be showing to ya all:

 -In this book i also found some of his WEIRDO sketches:

THE RTUNNER

A postcard for his sister OTTLA/1918

-It took me a while to read Kafka's masterpiece as i found myself turning back to pages and re-reading them and creating a personal vision linked to his words.Now and then, he awakens to me the compassion,the sadness,the pain,the anger,the hate on how life treated him and how life at the same time raised such a true artist which still remains alive and real in our everyday life.How grateful we must feel amongst him, even if he experienced such an introvert and overruled short life which caused to him all the depression and anxiety problems making him able to write and express his inner troubled self. He seems to describe many types of human's frustrations and emotions to the heart,that takes much more insight than just a mere metaphore. The last thing i'd like to mention its about his humour. I slightly see the grotesqueness,exaggeration and deep cynisism that lies all over his texts, which makes them funny from time to time.Although of his struggles in life,the parody or these kind of exaggerations he does, seem to him as a kind of therapy for him and must be read with a lighter heart than so often done.                     

                                                                         -Sincerely yours Shejla.